If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn't be where we are now.

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

It is at night... that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull.

There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.

Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It's patriotic to overconsume.

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.

Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.

Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

You have tried to be superior in an ordinary realm. Now you must learn to be ordinary in a superior realm.

Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.

But still, if it's true, how can it be a lie?

The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver.

It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.

I do love editorials - youre free to do whatever you want and portray a different character.

The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.

My national service is part of my training for freeing my soul from the bondage of the flesh.

As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.

Consumer culture is contradiction in terms